1030 ordspråk av Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson föddes den September 18th 1709 och dog den 13 December 1784 - English writer
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 It is wonderful to think how men of very large estates not only spend their yearly income, but are often actually in want of money. It is clear, they have not value for what they spend. |
| It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession. |
| It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his virtue or felicity; for smiles and embroidery are alike occasional, and the mind is often dressed for show in painted honor, and fictitious benevolence. |
| It is, indeed, not easy to tell how far we may be blinded by the love of ourselves, when we reflect how much a secondary passion can cloud our judgment, and how few faults a man, in the first raptures of love, can discover in the person or conduct of |
| It is, perhaps, not considered through how many hands a book often passes, before it comes into those of the reader; or what part of the profit each hand must retain, as a motive for transmitting it to the next |
| It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time. |
| It may likewise contribute to soften that resentment which pride naturally raises against opposition, if we consider, that he who differs from us, does not always contradict us; he has one view of an object, and we have another; each describes what h |
| It often happens that those who in their lives were applauded and admired, are laid at last in the ground without the common honor of a stone; because by those excellences with which many were delighted, none had been obliged, and, though they had ma |
| It seems not more reasonable to leave the right of printing unrestrained, because writers may be afterwards censured, than it would be to sleep with doors unbolted, because by our laws we can hang a thief. |
| It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity |
| It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure |
| It was his peculiar happiness that he scarcely ever found a stranger whom he did not leave a friend; but it must likewise be added, that he had not often a friend long without obliging him to become a stranger. |
| It was not for me to bandy civilities with my Sovereign |
| It would add much to human happiness, if an art could be taught of forgetting all of which the remembrance is at once useless and afflictive, that the mind might perform its function without encumbrance, and the past might no longer encroach upon the |
| Judgment is forced upon us by experience |
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Proverb (1469552 st) Search
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Born (10495 st)
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Toplists (6 st)
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